Course Description

In Mr. Petrosik's 7th grade language arts class we will be covering a plethora of material this year. We will start the year reading a class novel, The Lightning Thief, during this unit we will discuss greek mythology as well as fiction concepts. The rest of the semester we will be studying different fiction elements and concepts, looking at different types of texts and how good authors create good writing. Second semester we will have a poetry unit that will culminate in a 7th grade poetry slam! We will also cover descriptive writing and non-fiction during second semester as well.